Hugh Jackman's Broadway Buzz

Tony winner and Oscar nominee Hugh Jackman is literally the busiest person ever. In the last five years, he starred in 10 films, including the adaptation of Les Misérables, and two Broadway shows: Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway and A Steady Rain. He's a showbiz superhero. As we previously reported, Jackman is headed back to the Great White Way next ...

Tony winner Hugh Jackman is coming back to Broadway in 2015! Although he recently dropped out of the new musical Houdini, he is now set to start in a play, Jez Butterworth's The River, according to The New York Post.

Jackman confirmed the story on his Instagram account, saying: "What you read in the NY Post is true. Not sure ...

Tony winner Hugh Jackman may be headed to the big screen as lead villain Blackbeard in Pan, according to Variety. Jackman is in negotiations to join the forthcoming Peter Pan origin film, which has a script by stage actor (Speech and Debate) turned screenwriter (Ice Age: Continental Drift) Jason Fuchs. Joe Wright (Anna Karenina, Atonement) will direct.

Attention all Carrie Underwood haters—if you haven’t heard, the American Idol winner's stint in The Sound of Music was a hit! The live broadcast was such a success in the ratings, NBC aired the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic for a special encore performance this weekend, booting tried-and-true holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life out of their lineup. The network is ...

Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the theater district... so much was going on! That's right, this week a slew of Broadway vets get together for various holiday benefits and cabarets, Hugh Jackman hosts Christmas in Washington for the Obamas and Paul Nolan strums his way into Once. Make sure those presents are wrapped early, because you won't ...

Now you see it, now you don’t. Tony winner Hugh Jackman previously said on the record that the long-awaited new musical Houdini would premiere on Broadway in 2014, “if all goes well.” Now, the musical has disappeared from next year’s lineup and is aiming to hit the Great White Way in the 2015-16 season, The New York Times reports ...

Another week has come and gone on the Great White Way, and as always, we've scoured the recent crop of headlines to deliver the most important lessons we learned. Before scouring the Black Friday sales circulars, feast your eyes on these valuable tidbits!

As the lights come down on another busy week on Broadway, we’ve learned a ton of fascinating lessons from our favorite stars. From Jonathan Groff's HBO sexcapades to Lesli Margherita's poop-topped cookie, check out what we've learned from all the cool (and borderline crazy) stuff that's come our way in the last seven days.

By pure coincidence, Aussie actors Hugh Jackman and Geoffrey Rush were both in the audience at Broadway’s Big Fish on November 13—and if Jackman has his way, the duo could soon be starring together in the forthcoming film adaptation of The Drowsy Chaperone. The Tony winner, who previously said that the film’s script had “just hit my desk,” told ...